Render a Cube {Photoshop}

This tutorial shows you how to render a cube.
Very long, yet simple, and effective.


1. Make a new layer, and using the RECTANGLE select tool, at the side, select a square area on the left of the full canvas.
Go up to Select/Transform Selection, You can not change the selection area in various ways, such as scale. Don't do that at the moment, but go to Edit/transform/skew and drag the handle on the right, to the left, in the middle and downwards. To create the front of the cube.


2. Now fill it in a solid colour, a neutral grey (Not light, not dark, just normal), Now copy your first face of the cube, by selecting it and hitting CTRL+C, then CTRL+V. Go to Edit/Transform/Flip horizontal to flip it round. Now move it so that it meets the edge of the first face. Now fill this one with a darker grey. Select the top area by eye using the polygon LASSO tool. Just pick four points, then fill it with a lighter grey on a new layer. You now have each face on it's own layer. If you understood any of that, good.


3.While you still have each face on a seperate layer, select each one, and just lightly airbrush, With A LARGE bursh near the edges lighter, or darker, as you can see in the image above. This just defines the edges beter. Now select the top layer, and merge it down using CTRL_E. Now merge it down again, so the cube it's self is on a layer of it's own. Again, as shown above. Now create a layer, between the background and the cube, and select an area, AGAIN as shown above. Now fill it with a gradient, using the gradient tool, and set it to forgrown to white. This creates a shadow effect.


4. Select an area in the BACKGROUND layer, using the rectangle select tool. And fill it with a Neutral Grey colour. Now for the next step:-= Select the cube, So select the layer, and click it, at the same time, holding down CTRL. Do this in the area in red above. This will select all of the none transparent pixels on that layer. For example, the cube xD


5.Now create a NEW LAYER and fill it with any colour. As you can see, I chose orange. Set the layer properties to COLOUR as shown in red, this basicly tints the layers with the colour you selected.

Now. Congrats! You've rendered a cube!
Post here with your results! It'll be great what people make of this!

More tutorials on their way!

For now,
-Nath